Spreadsheet Models for Managers

Getting Access to Spreadsheet Models for Managers

If you use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or
business transactions, this course will change your life. You’ll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze
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Spreadsheet Models for Managers

Gathering and understanding requirements are important parts of your project

Examples of requirements

How to gather requirements systematically

Course project proposals

How to merge workbooks

In our next session, we’ll explore requirements. We’ll about how
important it is to capture requirements before you start a piece of work, and once captured,
how important it is to truly understand them. We’ll look at some examples of converting the
prose description of elements of your project into actual, concise requirements. And we’ll
show you a systematic method for gathering your project requirements.

We’ll also explore a method for merging two workbooks that have evolved slightly from a shared
ancestor. This technique is important for those of you working on your projects in teams.

And we’ll discuss course project proposals. You need an approved proposal before you can
proceed with the project.

Excel’s online help, and many of the how-to books you can buy, provide long lists of
keystroke shortcuts for carrying out specific operations, such as inserting rows, selecting
regions, or deleting columns. And they are useful.

But the true power of the keyboard comes not from using these particular commands. Rather,
it comes from learning combinations that are useful for particular situations that you
encounter frequently.

For instance, there’s no command for deleting the rows that contain the selected cells,
but there is a combination:

Shift+Space selects the rows that contain the selection.

Ctrl+- deletes the now-selected rows.

And so, Shift+Space Ctrl+- deletes the rows containing the selection.

Learning a vast array of keystroke commands is probably less useful than learning the
keystroke combinations that do exactly what you need to do most often.